STRYKER ACCOUNTABILITY With Army G-8’s help, redeploying units can account for equipment even before leaving their posts. Here, Sabrina Hill, the lead wholesale-responsible officer, and Brian Robinson, from Honeywell, verify the serial numbers of the 16 Strykers as part of the process to relieve the unit of equipment accountability. The officers, from the Army Field Support Battalion- Kandahar, 401st Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB), have the mission to provide command and control of wholesale accountability for TPE, ARI and intensely managed items. (Photo by Sharonda Pearson, 401st AFSB Public Affairs)


what they need their units to bring back from Afghanistan, or what was previously left in theater by one of their units that still hasn’t been returned or repaid.


Tison: We worked to get numbers on cost with


savings. We worked very closely the Defense Logistics Agency,


our deputy assistant secretary of the Army for cost and economics within ASA(FM&C), our costing folks. It just makes sense, particularly with the non- standard equipment. We’re not going to maintain it anyway. It would cost more to ship back, and even in the case of for- eign military sales, you still have to get it out of the country. You may remem- ber the Equipment Distribution Review Board, where we were working very closely with the U.S. Department of


State on foreign military sales. It’s more challenging with Afghanistan because we don’t have Kuwait next door; we can’t drive the equipment and vehicles out as simply from Afghanistan as we could from Iraq.


It really is a village. We get all the vari- ous parties together and really try to keep the process synchronized with all of the various organizations. We do a lot of integration work in G-8, and the R4D process is very natural for us.


Skibicki: We are tracking every single unit—when they are coming out, when we have to build the Transportation Con- trol Numbers for their movement—and are trying to automate so we can build the requirement for the transportation


earlier. “Left of the RPAT yard” is what we’re calling it now: Even before they move from their forward operating base (FOB) to turn in their equipment, we’ve already prioritized their equipment to return home, based on what was pro- grammed into ARI, or what


the unit


has programmed into Automated Reset Management Tool for their field-level reset when they get back. We execute DST runs to determine what equipment units can bring home to fill shortages within the unit or redeploy for another unit on the same installation back in the States. We are simply trying to get equipment out of country as quickly and in the most efficient way possible, while trying to support the needs of the depots for reset, and building readiness needed for the next deployers.


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